In a season of high travel, with lots of traditions and special times with family and friends, I get impatient when I have to do "normal" things like go to the grocery store and to work and such. Coming home from such a great vacation, the homesickness is especially profound. I found this poem recently, and it helped me to get some perspective:
Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more than all the world, your return.
MARY JEAN IRON
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